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...most expensive French film ever, with a massive release on 6,000 screens across Europe. It stars French cinema royalty Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu as well as sports icons like soccer god Zinédine Zidane, basketball wizard Tony Parker and motor-racing legend Michael Schumacher. But the undisputed star of the show is the feisty, moustachioed comic strip hero upon whose adventures the movie is based: Asterix...
That said, there's evidence suggesting the evolution of a French hijab economy. "I'll tell recruiters, 'Take a veiled woman - it's cheaper,'" says Hadri. In a country with 8% unemployment - and over double that if you're young and have an Arab name - it's hardly surprising, he says, that "the women don't care. They just want to work." Zeenath Simozrag is a Sorbonne-educated lawyer with two master's degrees and three languages, but it still took her six months to find a job, a fact she attributes to her wearing a head scarf...
...Think about something you could realistically do." She recalls: "I thought, 'I'm better than the white people in my class. I can do it.'" Eventually she did, but faced hurdles when she donned the hijab. Kaddouri had wanted to wear it since she was 15, but knew that French law meant she had to choose between covering her head and getting an education. "It wasn't just ambition that made me feel education was more important than wearing it, but my religion," she says. "The first word that God said to our Prophet was 'Read.' God gave me intelligence...
...October 2004, at a campaign rally in Florida, John Kerry noticed an enthusiastic response to his ringing pronouncements about helping Haiti, and in a pander to the Haitians in the audience, switched to French saying: "Je vais aider les Haitiens" (I will help the Haitians). Some French speakers later reported that he sounded like he said, "I will help the States," or "I will help the Chechens." And we translated it as: "I will confirm every stereotype accusing me of being an effete internationalist...
...United Farmworkers Union, "Si se pueda is right! That's right, yes we can!" Unfortunately, she can't - the slogan is "Sí se puede." Now, in Senator Clinton's defense, she's the first to tell audiences that languages aren't her strongest suit, citing a college French teacher who told her: "Mademoiselle, your talents lie elsewhere...